page_title: Kfar Warburg
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Kfar Warburg / History
caption_attribution_description: English: A CHICKEN FARM AT KFAR WARBURG. לול תרנגולות בכפר ורבורג.
context_page_description: Kfar Warburg is a large moshav in south-central Israel. Located near Kiryat Malakhi with 98 farms covering an area of 6,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In 2018 it had a population of 1,142.
context_section_description: The moshav was founded on 31 October 1939 by members of the "Menachem" organisation. It was named after Felix M. Warburg, one of the leaders of the Jewish community in the United States and a founder of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. It was founded on land that had traditionally belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Qastina.
  In the early 1950s, after the population of Kfar Warburg doubled, a culture hall with a 880-seat auditorium was built at the crossroads of the village's three main roads. Plays by the Habima and Cameri theaters were performed there almost every week.
  Notable residents include Yigal Hurvitz, a former Minister of Finance, who was buried in the moshav.
caption: Chicken coops at Kfar Warburg, 1938
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